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Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is being let out of prison after serving less than half of his sentence for killing Black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014. CNN values your feedback 1.
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke earned early release from prison. Activists now seek federal charges for violating McDonald's civil rights. He was 17 when he was killed in 2014.
An attack last week against former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke in his Connecticut prison cell reflects “the mentality out there … that people won’t rest until he is either given a ...
Jason Van Dyke's lead defense attorney, Daniel Herbert, left, and prosecutor Jody Gleason, center, appear before the judge's bench during the sixth day of Jason Van Dyke's murder trial for the ...
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been released from prison this week after serving about half his sentence for killing of Laquan McDonald. Many angry residents are planning protests.
Jason Van Dyke, the white Chicago police officer accused of fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times in less than 30 seconds, was found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts ...
Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer convicted of murdering 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, was sentenced to 81 months, or 6 years and 9 months, in prison and two years mandatory supervised ...
Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke enters the courtroom for his sentencing hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, Jan. 18, 2019, in Chicago. Antonio Perez/Getty Images, FILE.
Jason Van Dyke, a Chicago police officer who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, has been found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery.
"What Jason Van Dyke did in shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times, he deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison," Calloway said. "To me in my eyes, Jason Van Dyke is a racist murderer." ...
Jurors in the murder trial of Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke said they believed the officer escalated a situation that could have been defused when he shot teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times ...